The Sage of Main Street
Gold Member
Don't Believe Anything You're Told About This by the Twin "Sides"I can't give you all the answers, but I'd like to discuss people's objections to it, as well as why I still believe it's a worthwhile philosophy. Not looking to change minds so much as to have an exchange of an ideas. Or at least provide an understanding of how I and most Marxists I know think about politics, the damage done to the idea of Communism by the USSR and governments like it, economics, etc.
Since you've rejected the Limousine Liberals, it might be possible for you to see through the Rolls Royce Radicals' scam also.
After the aristocracy deservedly got guillotined during the French Revolution, many HeirHeads thought that their anointed-at-birth regime was doomed. Though others became reactionary, believing that even more intense and absolute Birth-Class Supremacy was the answer, the doomsayers suggested that the best way to continue their Born to Rule delusion was to take over the rising democratic movements. They counted on the former peasants' own delusion about "richkids on our side." (This was exactly the same as today's Trailer-Park Republicans, which the Left recognizes as self-destructive stupidity, being in denial about its own origins.)
Socialists even admit that many of their leaders were born in the upper class, but they double-down on that by saying that richkids have even more to give up than the underprivileged, so they can't be selfish. But Leftist utopian messianic ideology is designed to appeal to the power-hungry; the spoiled brats see that and make sure they become dictators when they get into power, more than they ever could under modern Capitalism, which concedes some democratic elements. There were no unions in the Soviet Union.